Categories Archives: Advocacy

Below is an open letter from Women of Color in Tech, an organization focused on tech inclusion, advocacy, and providing support & community for Latina, Indigenous/Native and Black women tech professionals. You can follow their work at www.wocintech.or...

“We need more women in leadership,” are the opening lines to the latest Manpower Group report that focuses on conscious inclusion of women in business. Women make up 50 percent of the workforce. Mara Swan, one of the authors of the Manpower ...

Nasir “Nas” Jones, brand ambassador for Bevel’s new electric trimmer, says Silicon Valley needs to make more products for people of color — and it needs more diversity. Bevel, the flagship brand from Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tris...

Being mindful about whose voices I amplify. In its early days, Twitter used to have a suggested user list, people whose Twitter accounts were recommended to people signing up for the service. If you got added to the list, you ended up a bit like the crapp...

Women are a minority in the workforce of tech. As a result of this, men, the majority in this field, play a very important part in paving the way to increase the numbers of women working in tech. Theres the obvious human side of things, making the industr...

A few weeks ago, I answered a question on Quora explaining how it feels to be a Black software engineer in Silicon Valley. I explained that most of the time, my race doesn’t play into how I’m treated at work and how my work is recognized. While that a...